Improvement in oven-doors for stoves



l. C. BARNES. Dyan-Door forStov es.

Patented .lu ly 27,11875.

u. PETERS,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH O. BARNES, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO VAN WORMER 82; MGGARVEY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN OVEN-DOORS FOR STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N l65,9l3, dated July 27, 1875; application filed May 20, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPH O. BARNES, of the city of Albany. State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Method of Constructing the Oven-Doors of Stoves and Ranges for the Reception of a Lettered Plate, of which the following is a specification The nature of my invention consists in constructing and arranging, in the center panel of stove or range doors, a means for the reception of a lettered plate, which may be galvanized, nickel-plated, coppered, or made of any metallic exterior difl'erent from that of which the stove-door is made to give it prominence, upon which plate may be lettered the name of the sub-vendor or agent, the owner and purchaser, or any other lettered name that it may be desired to put there.

I am well aware that prior to my invention lettered plates have been placed upon the exterior walls of sheet-iron stoves. I also know that the names of stoves and stove-manufacturers have been lettered and cast upon detachable hearth-pieces; and I make no broad claim to any such application. I do not believe, however, that the panels of stove-doors have ever been made and formed to receive a detachable lettered plate; and it is to this application that I desire to limit-my application, considering the form ation of a coinciding .place in the panel of a stove-door tov receive a let tered plate to be the principal feature of my invention, in combination with the application of the plate. I also consider it another feature of my invention to form the plate so lettered ofa difi'crent metal from that 01 which the stovedoor is made to which it is attached, or to galvanize it, nickel-plate it, or to give it prom inence, when so placed, by a metallic exterior or surface different from that of the door upon which it is placed.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 shows a door with the lettered plate applied to the panel, which has been shaped for its reception. Fig. 2 shows the door with the plate removed, and the place fitted for-its reception in view. Fig. 3 represents across-section of Fig.

1, taken on the line or y, in which this manner 5 represents another door fitted for the reception of the lettered plate.

At Fig. 2 the center panel is shown as partly omitted, with a bar across the openin This opening is beveled, as shown at m d, up on the edge of the omitted part. In the center of the bar E there is a hole, 0, made, through which a rod attached to the back of the plate (0 passes, and this rod has a thread out upon it for the reception of a nut to fasten the plate to the door. of the plate a, the rod, and the nut n are easily determined.

While the panel of a stove-door may be thus formed to receive the lettered plate, it may also be recessed, and a coinciding place sunk in the door for the reception of the plate; and the same arrangement of a rod and nut can be used, or two rods and nutsonc at each end of the platewith holes in. the recessed portion of the panel for the passage through of the rods, upon which the nuts could be used to secure the plate to the panel.

Having thus described myinvention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

The combination of the removable nameplate a and the opening or recess 0, formed in the stove-door for the reception of the plate, secured and held in place by means of nuts and bolts, substantially as shown and described.

JOSEPH G. BARNES. Witnesses WM. H. VAN WORMER, J OHN' JOSEPH OOYLE.

At Fig. 3 the position 

